Local area Lions Clubs sponsored contestants in a March 9th competition to award prize money and select vocalists and instrumentalists to advance to state level competition. This is the Virginia Lions “James A. Bland Music Scholarship Competition.” The Fairfax Lions Club had held a competition in January and selected 2 contestants for scholarship awards from our club and to advance to last night’s event.

The March 9th event was wonderful competition: 13 instrumental and vocalist competitors performed beautifully. The quality of the competition was high, and a panel of judges worked hard to select winners.

The Fairfax Lions Club sponsored performing artists are in the photo below. They were not selected to advance, they were superb. We thank them for doing their best, and thank Lion Jeff Root for chairing our Bland contest activity.

The Fairfax Lions Club was established on February 21, 1951. We are proud to continue to serve our community, neighbors and those in need around the world for 65 years. We do a lot simply by volunteering our time; but our major accomplishments are made possible by donations and fund raising activities which you in our community support. For example, our most recent major fund raiser was our citrus fruit sale, March 3-5, 2016. We hold 3 fuit sales each year (November, December, and March). Those fruit sales generate about 80% of our total charity programs budget. If you bought fruit from us (or maple syrup or peanuts) at our recent March sale, you helped us support several local youth programs, solve many people’s vision problems with special needs equipoment and eyeglasses, provide holiday meals to local needy families, provide medial assistance to underprivileged persons in Vietnam and Ehtiopia, support the Fairfax City senior center and patients in a nursing home and the Lamb Center, grant scholorships to veterans, and pay for research to cure diabetes and hearing loss. We thank our community for making all this possible.

Thank you – Fairfax neighbors – for helping us be a successful service club for 65 years.

About the Fairfax Lions

We are one of 70 Lions clubs in Northern Virginia, all part of the largest service organization in the world. Being a member of the Fairfax Lions is a fun and rewarding experience. Our club has won the annual “best club” in the Region numerous times. We have dedicated members from all walks of life who share the pleasure of giving back to the community.